But her finance minister, Guido Mantega, could not resist a little boosterism.

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Most also attend a daylong in-person training that serves up tips on taking beef boosterism online through blogs, tweets, Facebook campaigns and YouTube videos.

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The ousted brokers claim, among other things, that they--along with their clients--were duped by former Salomon telecom analyst Jack Grubman 's boosterism of WorldCom's stock.

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Organized sports are an attempt, through regimentation (uniforms and trophies) and rhetoric (rah-rah boosterism and coach talk), to give an inherently pointless activity some kind of point, to inject a purpose into play.

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To the degree that high-speed rail or other huge public works are undertaken in the U.S. without adequate scrutiny and in response to boosterism from self-interested parties, they are susceptible to the same flaws.

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LA's civic boosterism, old and new, preposterous.

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